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The article on how Twitter is changing was very interesting. It just goes to show that businesses cannot rely on just one channel of social media for their social media marketing efforts. Yes Facebook is trying to monetize by promoting posts and Twitter may follow suit. That doesn’t mean that businesses need to pay each time they want their posts seen, it just means they need to have a good social media strategy in place that continually adds new content across a variety of platforms.

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This is the first time I have read your fetching Friday post. So much more info to look through on different subjects was looking for social media help going to check out some of the posts you have listed.

Kristi, much appreciated. This is a great example of providing value-add to your readers. I was looking for strategies and tips in building my site and I ended up spending hours on just this one page going through the links, ironically it saved me even more hours scouring the net myself. Great stuff. Into my favorite bookmarks it goes! -PatPat Drummond just posted Do you have late payments?

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